French Popular Party

The French Popular Party (PPF) was a French fascist and anti-Semitic that was active from 1936 to 1945. The party was founded by Jacques Doriot and several other former French Communist Party members, and  it opposed Jews and retained the PCF's opposition towards the Freemasons; the party drew most of its support from working-class French people. The party had 120,000 members in 1937, and it made a name for itself as the most collaborationist party at the time of Nazi Germany's occupation of France during World War II. The PPF helped the Gestapo and Milice round up French Jews, sent volunteers to fight on the Russian front, and engaged in counter-French Resistance activities. The party was banned after the Liberation of France in 1945.